English Dictionary

After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began.

After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began. The food of the fat-tailed dunnart consists almost entirely of small arthropods, with a preference for spiders, termites, ants, cockroaches and weevils (Morton et al 1983).